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قُلْقَاسٌ ذ [The colocasia; or arum. colocasia of Linnæus: or its root:] the root of a certain plant, which is eaten cooked, (AHn, K,) and used medicinally: (AHn:) the decoction thereof increases the venereal faculty, and fattens; but the taking it constantly engenders black bile. (AHn, K.) [See De Sacy's “ Relation de l'Egypte par Abd-allatif, ” pp. 94 — 98.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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